GB 0154 ZB664 Northamptonshire Record Office This catalogue was digitised by The National Archives as part of the National Register of Archives digitisation project NRA 31710 The National Archives - JAN 1989 H.M.C. NATIONAL REGISTER NORTHAMPTONSHIRE RECORD OFFICE OF O ARCHIVES Accession 1981/400 Given by Dr Preston of Cotterstock Business and personal records of G and E W Baxter, builders of Cotterstock 1889 - 1957 The business records give details of building work done on many properties in parishes in the Cotterstock area including Ashton, Barnwell, Cotterstock, Fotheringhay, Glapthorn, Oundle, Polebrook, Southwick, Tansor, Warmington and Woodnewton, 1895-1952. The collection also includes sale catalogues of builders' merchants; papers re alterations to Glapthorn school 1911-1912; papers re repairs to Cotterstock and Glapthorn churches 1928; miscellaneous bills and receipts 1909-1953; domestic rates and insurance papers 1919-1936; North Northamptonshire Musical competition programmes 1933 and 1939, Oundle and Cotterstock District Nursing Association reports and accounts 1925-1936, sale particulars of Cotterstock Hall estate, 1927, and miscellaneous personal papers. ZB 664/ Day book giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by different individuals, mainly, 'B', 'W' and 'E'. Sometimes included are details of building materials used and their cost. Inside the front cover is written 'George Baxter, builder and contractor, Cotterstock' ' January 1903 - November 1909 includes loose: - details of work to be done and estimates of cost; .- part of an exercise book containing details of work done, where done and for whom, hours worked and the cost of building materials; also includes an account of the Cotterstock estate with G Baxter entitled "Horses time for carting' covering January - May 1906 with details of journeys undertaken carrying wood, manure, furniture, pigs, rubbish and a lawn mower, and costs. - - - .: 1904-1910 page from 'The Builder1 of 7 May 1892, containing an architectural drawing of the monument of the late Mrs Rowley in St Neots church, Huntingdonshire, with, on the reverse, rough pencil notes of building work. ZB 664/ 1 cont. - printed letter from C Redhead, secretary of Cotterstock and Tansor Sick and Dividing Club, giving notice of the Annual General Meeting to be held at the Gate Inn on 6 December and the Annual Dinner on 14 December, with, on the reverse, rough pencil notes of building work, dated 1911 - general catalogue of patent "Peveril1 Stoves and of brass or copper canopies that could be fitted to them, including drawings, descriptions, dimensions and prices. On the back cover of the booklet is printed "George Ramshay, ironmonger, Oundle' (undated). 2 Day book, giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by different individuals mainly 'Bax', 'Wal' and 'Ed1 . Sometimes included are details of materials used and their cost. Inside the front cover is written 'Mr George Baxter, mason, Cotterstock1 November 1909 - September 1914 includes loose: - rough details of work to be done, estimates of costs and draft letters. - page from 'The Builder1 of 23 April 1892, containing architectural drawings of details of the Guildhall at Lavenham, Suffolk, with, on the reverse, rough pencil notes of building work. - page from "The Builder" of 2 July 1892, containing a drawing of the Old High Altar at Westminster Abbey , restored from ancient drawings and documents by Mr H W Brewer; with, on the reverse, rough pencil notes of building work - bills of Siddons & Sons, coal, cake, seed, timber and slate merchants of Oundle to Mr G Baxter for Fletton bricks, self faced York slabs and pipes; dated 24 November 1914 and 14 May 1915 - printed memorandum (in red) re the importance of making returns of acreages of crops and numbers of livestock to the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries as soon as possible in wartime; undated, World War I (?) - printed notice, issued by the Trustees, re Bellamy's Charity for apprenticing boys and girls in the parishes of Cotterstock, Glapthorn, Oundle and Tansor, 3 June 1910. ZB 664/ 3 Day book, giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by 'Bax', "Wal" and "Ed1 . Sometimes included are details of building materials used and their cost. September 1914 - March 1922 4 Day book, giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by "WaV, "Ed1 and sometimes "Smith1 . Sometimes included are details of building materials used and their cost. .., ,,,,,,, a April 1922 - April 1925 5 Day book, giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by "W", 'E" and "G'- Sometimes included are details of building materials used and their cost. April 1925 - December 1930 6 Day book, giving details of the building work done each day, where done and for whom, and the hours worked by f W, 'E' and 'G'. Sometimes included are details of building materials used and their cost. The entries consist of what is recorded on the inside of the front and back covers, the rest of the book being missing. January 1934 and March 1938 7 Notebook, containing rough notes of building work done, where done and for whom and the hours worked by various individuals; also some details of building materials used and their cost. 1895-1903 includes loose: bill of Hayward and Towel! Ltd. of North St and Lincoln Rd, Peterborough, general hardware merchants and manufacturering ironmongers for a 1 inch wire lath; 21 March 1934. - cutting from unidentified newspaper about slates and the mining of slates at Collyweston ZB 664/ 8. Note book, with entries giving date, name of individual, building materials such as cement, lime, sand or gravel they had, and sometimes the cost; occasionally brief details of work done at a property; also details of carting building materials, manure and coffins, with hours worked by horse and man and cost sometimes g^en. 1941-1952 includes loose: - Registration card of Edward William Baxter, aged 29, bricklayer, of Cotterstock, registered under the National Registration Act 1915; endorsed with note that Baxter was rejected as medically unfit, 11 December 1915. - Defence Regulation 56A Building Licensing, detailing the financial limits to spending on a property without a licence between 1 February and 1 July 1948. - Printed army card setting out length of paces, number of paces to the minute and distance covered by soldiers marching and drilling; also descriptions identifying officers' ranks (undated). 9 Estimate book, containing detailed descriptions of building work to be done on many properties in Cotterstock and neighbouring parishes often giving the name of the property and its occupier with estimates of the cost of building materials and labour. 1923-1933' includes loose: - rough estimates and calculations of costs. - card of George F Pears of Braunstone Hotel, Narborough Road, Leicester. - letter: ES Mi Hard of Huntingdon Rd, Thrapston, to Mr Baxter 21 May 1931 roof of cottage of Mrs Rawson in Victoria Yard, Oundle needs repair if you call she will show you where the wet comes in . please submit estimate which I must submit to landlord 10. Account book, giving dates, name of client, sometimes the address of the property, a detailed description of the building work done, cost of building materials used and cost of labour. There is a separate account for each contract. January 1915 - June 1926 ZB 664/ 11 General sales catalogue of English Brothers, timber and general builders1 merchants of Peterborough; includes descriptions, illustrations and prices, (undated, c.1930). 12 Illustrated sales catalogue of G F Rippon & Co Ltd, lime manufacturers and general builders1 merchants, of Queen Street, Peterborough; includes detailed illustrations of building materials and fittings often with dimensions given, (undated, c.1930). 13 Illustrated sales catalogue of G F Rippon & Co Ltd, builder's merchants, of Queen Street, Peterborough; includes detailed illustrations of building materials and fittings often with dimensions given 1938. 14: Diary and blotter (largely blank) of Joseph Bentley Ltd of Barrow­ on-Humber, Lincolnshire, containing advertisements for their products including manure, weedkillers, insecticides and a range of garden equipment. ]g34 15. As ZB 664/14, but dated 1936. 16 Hand book of knitting and crocheting produced by Scotch Wool and Hosiery Stores of 10 Long Causeway, Peterborough, the registered trading name of Fleming, Reid & Co Limited, The Worsted Mills, Greenock, Scotland (undated) 17 Egyptian Dream Book, containing interpretations of dreams and details of many kidney or alleged kidney related diseases, with many statements by people in favour of Doan's Backache Kidney Pills as the cure for these; details of the problems caused by piles, eczema and shingles and statements in favour of Doan's Ointment as a cure for these and advertisements for Doan's Dinner Pills as a cure for liver and bilious problems. - also included is a "declaration of purity' by Edwin McClellan, managing director of Doan's Backache Kidney Pill Co of 8 Wells Street, Oxford Street, London, made 29 April 1902. - book produced by the proprietors Foster-McClellan Co of the same address. c.1902 ZB 664/ 18 Doan's Dictionary and Almanack, containing a calendar and a dictionary giving the spellings and definitions of 9000 words, also containing statements in favour of Doan's products as in ZB 664/17. 1911 19 General catalogue and price list of The New Expanded Metal Company Limited, of York Mansion, York Street, Westminster, London, manufacturers of expanded metal lathing and expanded metal cup lathing. January 1907 20/1 Advertisement for a Moule's Earth Closet, manufacturered by Moule's Patent Earth Closet Company Limited of 2 Guilford Street, Russell Square, London WC 20/2 Printed memorandum from Moule's expressing thanks for the customer's order and enclosing an invoice.